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N64 Library On NSO Suddenly Three Games Richer

N64 Library On NSO Suddenly Three Games Richer

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If it seems like Nintendo doesn’t update the N64 portion of their NSO library as often as the other categories, that’s because they don’t. The N64’s library simply wasn’t as large as that of their previous systems, the NES, SNES and Game Boy. But then you have moments like tonight, when five minutes into the Game Awards, Nintendo dropped THREE N64 games into NSO. If you ask us, they might have wanted to wait a couple days on this one, or release them a bit earlier….we’re still sorting through the massive dump of gaming news The Game Awards left us, and stuff like this could’ve easily gotten lost. Some sites didn’t have time or space to report it. But we did, and now that you know, tell your friends. Tell them about Jet Force Gemini, the bug-blasting, straight-shooting game from Rare we thought we’d never see on NSO. Tell them about Harvest Moon 64, the second game in the series (or third if you could the Game Boy version) and

Jet Force Gemini Announced For Nintendo Switch Online

Jet Force Gemini Announced For Nintendo Switch Online

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Jet Force Gemini, Nintendo 64 game from Rare, is coming to Nintendo Switch Online in December. Will it stand the test of time? There’s a big problem with the Nintendo 64 library on Nintendo Switch Online: a sizable chunk of the good titles for the system were released by a studio that is now owned by a rival business. Rare was considered one of the best, if not the best, developers of N64 games. In the 90s Nintendo owned a controlling interest of Rare’s stock and their games were released exclusively on the N64. Early in the Gamecube era, Nintendo cut Rare loose and Microsoft, needing reasons for people to purchase their new XBox console, bought them outright. So as the Nintendo 64 library on NSO has filled up, one big question has been what they’re going to do when they run out of first-party games. Most of the remainder of memorable titles on that system came from Rare — are they going to negotiate for them or are they

Dinosaur Planet, The Lost N64 Game, Finally Discovered

Dinosaur Planet, The Lost N64 Game, Finally Discovered

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Every now and then you hear about an unreleased game from the past finding its way to the Internet, and the sheer number of discoveries in recent months has given everyone hope…unless you’re a fan of Rare’s golden years on the N64. You see, Rare used a special development cartridge of its own invention that would self-erase its own ROMs every time the carts were disconnected. That means the odds of uncovering a lost and desired N64 game from them (like Dinosaur Planet or Twelve Tales) is painfully low. That’s what we assumed, anyway, until Forest of Illusion (the same guys who found all those Zelda 64 beta maps last month) came out of nowhere yesterday morning with an actual dump of Dinosaur Planet. Where did it come from? The data was burned to a CD-R, not stored on a cartridge, and it was formerly in the possession of a Swedish collector. We may never know the story as to why this exists, but based on the kind of build

Nintendo Is Not Considering An N64 Classic, Says Reggie

Nintendo Is Not Considering An N64 Classic, Says Reggie

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Rumors have been blazing all over the cybersphere regarding the imminent arrival of the N64 Classic this holiday season. This mock-up appeared online, showing a model N64 with four proprietary plugs. An automated ad from Target was regarded as a leak. One website claimed there would be a second Nintendo Direct this month where the miniconsole would be announced, and that Banjo-Kazooie would be confirmed as part of the installed game lineup. People are wishing pretty hard for this product, but any Nintendo fans knows by now that demand is almost never a factor in what the company chooses to make. And today’s revelation from Reggie Fils-Aime should be quite the blow: the N64 Classic isn’t in Nintendo’s plans right now. The only thing more aggravating than hearing something like this is NOT hearing the reason why. And sometimes Nintendo stays tight-lipped on business decisions, but for this one we got a clear answer: because the NES and SNES Classics were conceived as stopgap projects to fill the revenue hole

Someone Announced Glover 2 Without Holding The Rights To Glover 1

Someone Announced Glover 2 Without Holding The Rights To Glover 1

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In one of the weirder news stories to come across our desk this month, a German game studio announced they were beginning work on a sequel to the critically panned, publically mocked 1999 platformer Glover. In the game, you made a living glove walk around and push a ball past obstacles to the end of multiple stages. It got some attention, but for the wrong reasons. Glover didn’t have many unironic fans, but one of them was Melvin Zatink, managing director at Golden Mushroom Studio. “We start[ed] in 2016 with many small projects as a contract developer for other video game companies or app developers to build up our treasury,” he told Kotaku. When Golden Mushroom started making plans to develop games, Zatink had one big idea: the return of Glover! “I have so many lucky memories with this game,” he said. Golden Mushroom looked into who held the rights to the original title, and found the “Glover” trademark was no longer active and ready to purchase. They did so,

Turok 1 & 2 Coming To Xbox One

Turok 1 & 2 Coming To Xbox One

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Dinosaur hunting games Turok 1 and 2, which first debuted on the Nintendo 64, are coming to the Xbox One in March. The newly remastered versions of these games have previously been released on PC and will cost players $19.99 each. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vTxsv3oK_s Turok 2 will even feature a brand new mutliplayer mode that was not present in the original title. It will include a combination of levels and weapons from the N64 version of the game as well as the more recent PC edition.

Yooka-Laylee (Xbox One) Review

Yooka-Laylee (Xbox One) Review

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As you might have guessed from its name, Yooka-Laylee is a tribute to the retro 3D platformers that were first introduced to the world two decades ago, most notably taking inspiration from Rare’s Banjo-Kazooie. It has been crafted by Playtonic Games, made up of several former Rare staffers, and was funded due to a highly successful Kickstarter campaign that grabbed attention by promising to recreate a faithful experience to what fans had expected from games of this genre in the 90s. From the very first moment that you start up the game, it is clear that this is a title centered around the same quirky aspects that made the likes of Banjo such a success. Whether it is the gorgeous visuals and bright palette of colors, the unintelligible dialogue of the characters, or the comedy that accompanies almost every interaction. The five distinctive worlds are all filled with a cast of zany characters that will almost definitely entertain you as you interact with them. The story is as simple as

Fan Creates The Ultimate Mario 64 Mod

Fan Creates The Ultimate Mario 64 Mod

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There are countless mods, hacks and unofficial sequels of Mario’s 2D games floating around the Web. But past the point when the series moved to 3D, not so much. It’s a lot trickier to rearrange the elements of a level made of polygons than it is to alter one made of pixels and sprites. However, it CAN be done. The most elaborate effort to date was released to the world recently thanks to Kaze Emanuar, a man whose specialty is Mario 64. He’s gone under the game’s hood before and produced altered takes on it, but nothing to date like Super Mario 64: Last Impact. Most Mario 64 hacks consist of alternate textures, or taking the Mario model and altering it to be someone else (it’s possible to play as Yoshi or Toad if you can find the right patch). In this one, EVERY LEVEL is different. The effort took Kaze over a year. SM64: Last Impact includes 15 new worlds, 130 new stars, and even new power-ups based on

This Paper Mario Glitch Takes 4.5 Years To Pull Off

This Paper Mario Glitch Takes 4.5 Years To Pull Off

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Remember last April when a glitch in Paper Mario was discovered that would take 416 years to execute if attempted? The same man who discovered that glitch has unearthed another one. It turns out plenty of time-related bugs exist in the game due to no scripted limit being placed on them. One such glitch occurs during Peach’s cake-baking minigame. At a certain point, Peach is instructed to make a cake, place it in the oven and leave it inside for approximately thirty seconds. There’s no on-screen timer or any other indication of how long 30 seconds is. The player is expected to guess. To give some leeway in this task, the game will accept anything from 23 seconds to 36 seconds as a perfect cake. But the time limit can actually be stretched farther than that. If you simply leave the cake in the oven, there’s no point where the in-game timer stops counting. It’ll just keep adding +1s until it reaches the maximum amount the CPU can calculate (4,294,967,295),

US Prototype Of N64 Disk Drive Discovered

US Prototype Of N64 Disk Drive Discovered

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Back before the Nintendo 64 ever even came out, Nintendo was promising an add-on would make up for the shortcomings and diminished space of the cartridge format. It would be a Zip Drive-like attachment called the N64 Disk Drive, or going by its final name, the 64DD. But the 64DD hit multiple delays in development and many of the titles that were supposed to show it off (like Ocarina of Time) were ported down to the cartridge format instead. It would take until 1999 for the 64DD to see release, but only in Japan, backed by an even smaller game lineup than the Virtual Boy. The launch was ignored and the 64DD went on clearance in no time. Of course, today it is worth much more due to its rarity. Imagine how much the prototype for the American version would be worth! “But how can a US version even exist if the Japanese version flopped so hard?” you might ask. Simply because development took so long. Former Sierra game developer

New Rare Video Reveals The Making Of Perfect Dark

New Rare Video Reveals The Making Of Perfect Dark

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Right on the heels of Rare’s video revealing once and for all what the mysterious “Dream” video game was all about, the company put out another video on Christmas Eve detailing the making of their 2000 Nintendo 64 FPS Perfect Dark. One of the questions fans have always had is why Rare dropped the Bond license after Goldeneye 007 was such a big hit. This is finally answered in the video: after development on Goldeneye wrapped, the first inclination was to make a Tomorrow Never Dies game, but while it was in pre-production, they started getting all sorts of ideas they couldn’t use if they stuck to the movie’s plot. “I wish we could have more futuristic gadgets. What if this was in the future?” “We should put in a part where you control a female character.” “Hey, what if there were aliens?” Around this time their contract with MGM had to be renewed, and Rare wound up being massively outbid for the Bond license, which was now ten times

Another Unreleased Nintendo 64 Game Discovered: “Freak Boy”

Another Unreleased Nintendo 64 Game Discovered: “Freak Boy”

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Earlier this month the prototype for an unreleased Nintendo 64 game, Viewpoint 2064, was finally discovered and footage was posted online. Now, twice in the same month, it’s happened again, this time in the UK. The alpha cart turned up at a flea market in the town of Guileford, and was spotted by an anonymous fan of the website Unseen 64, who recognized the name “Freak Boy” written on the prototype in marker. He immediately purchased it, filmed footage of the game running with his cell, and sent nine little short video clips to Unseen 64. They can all be viewed at this link instead. You can check out some of the footage that was revealed in the player below. Freak Boy would have been interesting. It comes from the very very early days of 3D game development and would’ve been released within the first year of the N64’s life, a period of time when 3D graphics looked so primitive that people were doing some really wild and avant-garde things with it instead

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